How To Start Your Smart Home: #001

One Hour Smart Home Podcast Episode #001: Hosted by-James Both

"Where do you start with a smart home? With the easiest steps first?"-James Both

Are you lost on where to start with on a smart home? There are thousands of smart home devices all calling for your attention, it can be overwhelming and tough to know where to start with creating a smart home for yourself. We break down the 4 best devices to start your smart home with that won't break the bank and will give you the maximum benefit to your life.

If you don’t know where to start with a smart home this episode is for you, or if you have a few smart home devices already and want to add more smart devices to your home we review the 4 best devices to start with. In this episode we share the four pillars of designing your smart home system and the four most useful devices when starting out your smart home system. We want to to empower you to start your smart home journey. All of the devices we discuss in this episode are devices we have personally installed, tested and use in our home on a daily basis to make life easier. It’s easy to get caught in the home automation trap thinking that you have to pay thousands to automate your home when in reality you can start automating your smart home for under $60. Subscribe to our podcast for future smart home episodes or join our email list by Click Here

This Episode Features:

How to start your smart home to get the maximum benefit with without breaking the bank.

4 best devices to start with in your smart home

4 things to consider when making a smart home device purchase

Four Pillars of a smart home automation: Convenience, Controllability, Energy management and Security

Active and passive smart home safety measures

Why voice assistants are helpful

Functionality and convenience of smart thermostats

Why you should choose failsafe method for smart locks

Why you should choose a smart doorbell over a smart camera when getting started with a home automation system

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You want to learn how to start a smart home? You’re in the right place. This is episode number one. Welcome to the one hour smart home podcast. Helping you make your life better using automation and technology with your host James Both.

Hello and welcome this is your host James Both with the onehoursmarthome.com, bringing you everything you need to know to automate your home, your life as well as smart home product reviews, the latest smart home industry news, in-exclusive interviews with smart home industry experts and smart home company founders. This is episode number one and today we're going to go through the four best devices to start your smart home with and the four things that you should consider when making a smart home device purchase. But before that I have one ask for you. If you like this podcast subscribe so you can be notified of new episodes and visit www.onehoursmarthome.com to subscribe to our email list.

All right now let's get started with our episode. so we're going to cover the four pillars of a smart home and what is important for you as well as the four devices that we that you implement when starting out a smart home. So the four pillars of a smart home we've boiled down to convenience, controllability, energy management and security. When you're deciding what device to implement in your smart home, it needs to be all about convenience. Because if you have to go into an app, go through three different screens and then you can't control your lights to your front door or your thermostat, that's not a smart home. That’s a dumb home. Smart homes are supposed to make your life easier and more convenient. So that's the number one thing that you want to think about when you're implementing a device. Now the next part of this controllability ties into the convenience factor. so as time goes on Smart Homes originally required a hub, they're required an app and then all the sudden Amazon Alexa, Google Play came onto the scene and now you can control your home like Tony Stark with your voice. So controllability and convenience kind of tied together. Being able to control your home with your voice is the most convenient way to be able to interface with your home. Because we're on our phones enough anymore. There’s no reason that you need to go through an app when you can just say, "Alexa turn off the lights, Alexa set my thermostat to 72 degrees." so when you look at controllability in your device, you really want something that will integrate with voice in the long term. A lot of devices come out and they may not initially integrate with voice. But as long as that manufacturer has a roadmap or a path to integrate with voice in the future, that's really really important and the third pillar is energy management. Which encompasses both energy efficiency and energy savings. So here you want to look at it both at the device level as well as the grid level. So on a device level, you want to look how a device is going to help you save energy. so for a smart thermostat, that might be turning your heating or cooling down while you are at work and the smart thermostat will do that usually from a motion sensor built into the thermostat or by using your GPS location on your phone to know that you're at work and it can turn up or down the heating or cooling to help you save energy while no one is there at the house. The other thing that you're going to find with the smart thermostat devices is that you're going to adjust your temperature to a more accurate or a more comfortable level all the time. So before when you might have left your Heat go to 75 degrees or 73 degrees, when really it should have been at 70 degrees; but you just didn't want to get out from the couch. Now you're going to be able to turn it down from your phone or tell Alexa or Google home to do it. So you're going to help save yourself some energy there........continued full transcript is available Click Here

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